In mid-March 2020, Jeff Krasno began writing a weekly essay for his growing Commune wellness community. The coronavirus had burst on the scene and was spreading rampantly. The cocktail of pandemic, quarantine and social media induced anxiety and fear for many across the country and the world.
In the hopes of making sense of the madness, Jeff leveraged words as vessels for complicated emotions. He laid bare his soul in a series of stories and reflections dispatched via email to millions scattered across the globe. These weekly missives became a sort of communion, a series of intimate spiritual conversations, during the tumultuous and hyper-politicized year of 2020.
In this compendium of essays, Jeff traverses the bristly socio-political landscape of COVID-19, racial justice, the psychological impacts of social media, the end of shared reality, and of course, the American election. Interspersed are his explorations of fatherhood, grief, death and the emergence of new life. With candor and care, he attempts to step out of the political invective and instead, cultivate awareness of biases and find a middle way. Throughout this book, he invites the reader, and soon-to-be writer, to join him in exploring their own experience of 2020 and these very nuanced topics, with a series of writing exercises and contemplations.
Innehållsförteckning
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 April 5, 2020: Go To Your Room
2 April 12, 2020: Maybe
3 April 19, 2020: We Are Enough
4 April 26, 2020: The New Frontier
5 May 3, 2020: Giant Steps
6 May 10, 2020: Women Leaders & COVID
7 May 17, 2020: On Death
8 May 24, 2020: For Those Battling in Paper Armor
9 May 31, 2020: 8 Minutes, 46 Seconds
10 June 7, 2020: The Boiling Point
11 June 14, 2020: Privilege
12 June 21, 2020: Finding Fatherhood
13 June 28, 2020: Words Matter
14 July 5, 2020: Interdependence Day
15 July 12: 2020: Who Am I?
16 July 19, 2020: Navigating Post-Truth
17 July 26, 2020: Walking Among the Divine
18 August 9, 2020: A Bedtime Fairy Tale
19 August 16, 2020: The Other Epidemic
20 August 23, 2020: From Straw to Steel
21 August 30, 2020: A Bridge to America’s Future
22 September 6, 2020: You Split. I Choose.
23 September 20, 2020: Antisocial Media
24 September 27, 2020: Small Is Beautiful
25 October 4, 2020: The Middle Way
26 October 11, 2020: The ’Rona
27 October 18, 2020: Good Grief
28 October 25, 2020: Be Ready!
29 November 1, 2020: A Solemn Pledge
30. November 8, 2020: Communion
31. November 29, 2020: Enough is a Feast
32. December 27, 2020: Christmess
33. Jan 2, 2021: When Lightning Strikes